red-hot. their defense we didn t make money on the mortgage mess, it s now full of holes. from e-mails bragging about making a killing on the housing market s decline. in october, 07, the cfo boasted, quote, sounds like we will make some serious money. and besides that, one of the biggest guys at goldman wrote, quote, of course we didn t dodge the mortgage mess, we lost money, but made more than we lost because of shorts. now, shorting is basically pet betting an investment will lose money. the white house now targeting wall street as it tries to push through financial regulations, indicates goldman might be a poster child for street excess. the ceo of goldman is not going to win any popularity contests when over a period that ordinary americans pensions, houses, et cetera, were collapsing in value, they were actually making significant money off of it. goldman has some supporters waiting to hear more. there are some conflicts of interest that can exist and do
to bring the bill to the floor, not yet anyway, neither side in washington is eager to be seen as the party that failed to fix wall street. harris: i read today they re calling it a showdown vote. that s right, one more time. harris: thank you so much. al-qaeda confirming the deaths of two top leaders and vowing to keep on despite the deaths a week after the u.s. and iraqi forces in a safe house, it happened in tikrit, saddam hussein s old hometown. the group posting a four-page statement on a militant website earlier today. the top u.s. commander in iraq said last week, that nearly 45,000 u.s. troops are on track to leave iraq by the end of august. despite recent violence. the u.s. military saying it appears all al-qaeda and iraq have been weakened, but pockets of resistance persist, persist, rather, and the level of violence can vary greatly
we re not talking about health care reform although it sounds like it. the mood on capitol hill feels just as partisan these days, this time the divide is over the most sweeping changes to the u.s. financial system since the great depression. republicans saying the bill does not reflect the bipartisan effort. right now, they can filibuster the bill so long as all 41 members in their caucus vote as a block against it. still democrats are hoping they can pick off one republican even if that doesn t happen until tomorrow s test vote on the bill. julie kirtz is live in washington, woo. all right, harris, with that test vote set for monday the two men at the center of showdown over reforming wall street took a break from the intense negotiations saying they re close tower a deal. and the chair and ranking republican on the senate, a banking committee side the deal making will be on capitol hill beyond monday with all 41 senate republicans prepared to vote no on a move by dems to start deb
the border particularly in arizona. this one is going to heat up as citizens start to speak their minds on the issue, too. nicole collins, thank you very much. hardship tonight for the families of three teenage girls in minnesota. they died in a rollover accident in friday not far from the wisconsin border and now, police are saying a fourth teenage girl critically injured is fighting for her life at this hour. all girls attended the same local high school and saying the 16-year-old driver overcorrected after she crossed the middle line in the road and her pickup truck ended up flipping into a ditch. all four girls were thrown outside the vehicle. goldman sachs in the hot seat this week. top execs from the wall street bank set to defend their company before lawmakers after incriminating e-mails were released. we told, but that yesterday. details on that ahead, plus, he was an out of work exec who made headlines when he took to the streets wearing a sandwich board, begging for a job.